Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: korea

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Jindai moji

神代文字
alternative words: Jindaimoji, Holly script, Shinto script
keywords: korea , mystery , shintoism
related topics: Invasion of Korea , Shintoism , Nara period
related web sites: http://www.age.ne.jp/x/oohashi/ , http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kami/asi-pon/jindai.html
explanation: There exist many shinto documents written with holly scripts (jaindai moji) such as "Uetsu fumi" or "Hotsuma zutae", being pretended by the nationalists that Japan should have had her own scripts before the introduction of kanji characters. They are all phonetic scripts based on 5 vowels so they should be invented after Nara period when Japanese language had 8 vowels. They may have originated from Korean alphabet, hangul, that Japanese brought during Hideyoshi's Korean campaign.

Koguryo

高句麗高麗
alternative words: Koguryo kingdom, Koma, Kokuri, Koukuri
keywords: korea , state
related topics: Silla , Paekche , Empress Jingu
related web sites: http://www.portnet.ne.jp/~berry/zino/koguryo.html , http://sunak2.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp/~nakano/misc/cult04.html
explanation: One of 3 Korean kingdoms which appeared around 30 BC in south-east Manchuria. By expelling Chinese from the region, it extended the territory to north Korea. 19th King, Kwanggaet successfully pushed away Japanese attack. His successors snatched lands from Silla and Paekche and moved the capital to Pyongyang in 586. In 668, suffering a simultaneous attack of Silla and Chinese Tang, Koguryo surrendered and many aristocrats fled to the north to found Bohai kingdom.

Mimana

任那伽耶
alternative words: Kaya
keywords: korea , state
related topics: Yamataikoku , Silla
related web sites: http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~tosikenn/0415b.html
explanation: Southern extremity of Korean peninsula had been inhabited by Japanese. It appeared in the 3th century as one of states composing Yamataikoku with the name of "Kuyakankoku". Due to its strategic position and iron mine, Japan had extended this zone during 4th century then it began to shrink and disappeared in 562: because of an appearance of horse riding battles in Korean peninsula, it became more and more difficult to keep this zone for Japanese. Kaya is the Korean name of Minama.

Momotaro

桃太郎
alternative words: Momo taro, Momotarou, Momo tarou
keywords: korea , mythology , tale
related topics: Nihonshoki , Muromachi period
related web sites: http://members.xoom.com/cana_h/essays/990617.html , http://www2j.biglobe.ne.jp/~minwa/ , http://ww5.marusan.co.jp/issu/index.htm
explanation: According to Nihonshoki, Korean bandits had settled in Okayama prefecture and bothered the inhabitants. Yamato court then sent Prince Kibitsuhiko to punish them. This historical event had been transformed during Muromachi period to the following fairy tale: an old coupled has discovered one day a great peach floating on a river. A boy born from this peach has been sent, accompanied by a monkey, a pheasant and a dog, to beat demons who live in a neighboring island.

Paekche

百済百済国
alternative words: Paekche kingdom, Kudara, Hyakusai
keywords: korea , state
related topics: Silla , Battle of Hakusukinoe , Emperor Kanmu , Empress Jingu
related web sites: http://www.coara.or.jp/~mieko/koreahistory/koreahistory6.htm
explanation: One of 3 Korean kingdoms which occupied the south west of Korean peninsula between 4th and 7th centuries. According to a legend, the people might originate from Fuyo, another Korean kingdom which preexisted in Manchuria. During fierce competitions between 3 kingdoms, Paekche had gradually lost territories in spite of a support of Japan and the capital fell in 660. During the last days, many aristocrats and intellectuals fled to Japan. Emperor Kanmu's mother stemmed from them.

Satsuma ware

薩摩焼
alternative words: Satsumayaki, Satsuma-yaki, Satsuma yaki, Satsuma ceramic, Satsuma
keywords: art , craft , korea , thing
related topics: Invasion of Korea , Satsuma domain
related web sites: http://www.minaminippon.co.jp/kikaku/satuma/satuma21.htm , http://www.synapse.ne.jp/taka/tyoum.html
explanation: Ceramic originated by Korean potters brought by Shimazu Yoshihiro during Korean campaign of 16th century. Though the original technique has been lost in Korea, their descendants are still perpetuating the technique in southern Kyushu at Inashirogawa and Ryumonji. The most famous ceramic is Kokuyu (Kuro Satsuma i.e. black Satsuma) and Hakuyu (Shiro Satsuma i.e. white Satsuma).

Seinan war

西南戦争
alternative words: Seinan rebellion, Satsuma rebellion, Seinansenso, Seinan senso
keywords: korea , war
related topics: Saigo Takamori , Okubo Toshimichi , Meiji period , Satsuma domain
related web sites: http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~aaa57280/Seinansenso/Seinansenso1.htm , http://www.kumanichi.co.jp/seinan/seinan.html
explanation: The reform of Meiji government which had suppressed the samurai privilege provoked many protests. In order to canalize their frustration, Saigo Takamori proposed to colonize Korea but his idea being rejected, he returned back to his home of Kagoshima. When the central government decided to transfer the powder factory, it provoked a large rebellion in 1877 led by Takamori. It conquered a half of Kyushu but 6 month later, defeated by the central government, Takamori killed himself.

Silla

新羅新羅国
alternative words: Silla kingdom, Shiragi, Shinra
keywords: korea , state
related topics: Paekche , Battle of Hakusukinoe , Mimana , Koguryo , Empress Jingu
explanation: One of 3 Korean kingdoms which occupied the south east of Korean peninsula between 4 and 7th centuries According to a legend, , the people might originate from Ko-choson, another Korean kingdom which preexisted in North Korea. Initially, a weak country which survived under the shadow of Koguryo, it extended gradually the territory by absorbing Kaya (Mimana) in 562, then unified Korea with an aid of Tang dynasty: falls of Paekche in 660 and Koguryo in 668.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

豊臣秀吉木下藤吉郎羽柴秀吉
alternative words: Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Hideyoshi
keywords: famous person , korea , war lord
related topics: Sengoku period , Azuchi Momoyama period , Oda Nobunaga , Invasion of Korea , Ishida Mitsunari
related web sites: http://www.biwa.ne.jp/event/hideyosi/ , http://www.na.rim.or.jp/~magnet/hideyo1.html
explanation: Born in a modest family of samurai in 1536, Nobunaga recognized immediately his talent after an enrollment to the army, and Hideyoshi answered well his requests in many circumstances. After a surprising assassination of his boss by Akechi Mitsuhide in 1582, Hideyoshi killed the latter and continued the work of his superior, i.e. unification of Japan. Unsatisfied with his achievement, he sent troops to Korea to become Chinese Emperor but died in 1598 without seeing the result.

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